8 important things to know if you consider, (or use) the Store module.

As of august 1st, 2009, the current official version of store is 02.01.00. The next version will be version 02.02.00. It is expected to be submitted to the release process after sumertime.
 

• My april blog was a presentation of Entity framework in the context of the Store Module. Let's go ahead and leverage last month's efforts by creating a full Store administration panel in a few minutes.

Warning : it is still summertime here, and exceptionally, this blog is no DotNetNuke topic. But if you are still in a post-vacation mood and read it, I'll tell you an incredible summer holiday story. Something that you will never experience yourself (I hope).
 

The Store module is a set of 21 Visual Studio projects. Maintaining, debugging an packaging this code base is not an easy task, and Gilles Le Pigocher has carefully studied all the methods that have been published in these blogs and forums. He took the best of each, added his own brainwaves, and here it is. We are pleased to serve you the best recipe ever. 

You may have heard of Entity framework and wonder how it might be usefull to your DNN projects.

You may also wonder how it relates or compares to Linq, to the DNN data layers, and if it will impact the future of the Store Module. This is precisely what I will discuss this month.
 

In this june blog we invite you to visit one of the website that we are using with Gilles to test the Store module, at http://beta5.dotnetnuke.fr.

This is an experimental - but fonctionnal - admin panel for Store, which is entirely built upon Entity framework and Dynamic Data.

At first sight this may seem like any module you get used to with DotNetNuke. But a closer look will reveal some interesting and early technologies that are not so common.

While we are in the final reviewing stage before submitting Store v 2.2 to the release process, we've been talking a lot with my co-lead Gilles about XHTML compliancy and the TABLE tags. Will the next version of Store come without a single Table ? You can go straight to the conclusion if you can't wait for the answer.